About Me

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Bible Believers'
Newsletter 894

Christian greetings in
the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is so good to see you.

Two thousand years after the Great Flood the world is once again falling
apart as foretold by Jesus Christ and His Prophet William Branham (Matthew
24:37). "Jesus Christ is the [visible] image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature." As "thought" God's Word was invisible until as
Word it was made flesh in Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14). "He is Himself before
all things, having essential being from eternity, thus pre-eminence: in Him all
things were called into being from nothing and are maintained in their present
state" [and He is the instrument of realizing the divine purpose of
Ephesians 1:3-23] (Colossians 1:15-17). Through His sacrificial death at Calvary
and His resurrection, the invisible God now comes into the temple of individual
Christians making Him visible again.

The whole creation consists of and
is sustained by God's Word but this union has been breached by overwhelming
unbelief and moral abandon within Christendom. The revelation of the Seven Seals
brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D form; its rejection by the world church
system crucified the Son of God afresh so the world is again falling apart. Our
news items show the world racing toward the 'hot stage' of World War III, the
sinking of Los Angeles and a huge segment of earths crust, the tribulation of
Daniel's Seventieth Week, and Armageddon.

Our main article is
"Abiding in the Vine." Jesus Christ is the true Vine and we must enter
into the unity of His faith in order to manifest that we are the Sons of God and
change in the atoms when we recognize the glorified temple of one of our
sleeping Brethren made visible again.

This Newsletter serves those of
like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their
soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be
confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Your brother-in-ChristAnthony Grigor-Scott

Latest NYT BIG
LIE: Russia responsible for Syrian Refugee 'Surge'

October 27, 2015 —
NY Times reporting shifts from the absurd to the contemptible . . .

Fact: Syria is Obama's war, planned years before he
took office, part of longstanding US strategy to replace all sovereign
independent governments with US-controlled illegitimate puppet regimes.

Fact: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria are four of history's
great crimes, America bearing full responsibility, millions of lost lives and
unspeakable human suffering considered a small price to pay—the appalling dark
side of US imperial viciousness.

On October 24, the reliable Sputnik
News service headlined "Syria Refugees Praise Russian Airstrikes, Consider
Returning," saying: "Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun previously said
that over 800,000 refugees have returned since Russian airstrikes against
terrorist targets in Syria began on September 30th. The operation has also given
refugees from the conflict hope that peace would return, according to interviews
AP conducted around the Aleppo province, a hub for refugees leaving Syria. 'I
hope that with Russian pilots' help, our military will advance and defeat
terrorists so that we could return to our homes,' one refugee told AP."

This view is widely held and growing, opposite of deplorable Times
propaganda, a Lying Machine for wealth, power and privilege, supporting all
US wars of aggression, past and current. In a few short weeks, Russia's
intervention dramatically changed the Syrian and regional landscape. Full
story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: Lest we forget, this constitutes an undeclared act of
war against a sovereign country in violation of international law (Nuremberg).

Amply documented, from the outset of the Syrian insurgency . . . "As the
unrest and killings escalate in the troubled Arab state, agents from MI6 and the
CIA are already in Syria [2012 report] assessing the situation, a security
official has revealed. Special Forces are also talking to Syrian dissident
soldiers. They want to know about weapons and communications kit rebel forces
will need if the Government decides to help (Syria
will be bloodiest yet, Daily Star, January 2012). (globalresearch.ca).

US weapons and ammunition supplied to terrorists in Iran and Iraq youtube.com. In over a
year of US bombing both countries, zero ISIS targets were struck—infrastructure
and other government sites only. With America backing pure evil to advance its
Imperium, Moscow's best hope is to restore regional peace and
stability.

President Putin
tells Everyone exactly Who created ISIS

October 1, 2015 —
As readers and subscribers of this Newsletter have known for the past twenty
years, the apostate US Vassal of the City of London and "image of the beast
of Imperial Rome" is the guilty puppet. Here President Putin answers
questions regarding ISIS from a US journalist at the Valdai International
Discussion Club in late 2014. Full story: youtu.be

Comment:
Watching the addresses to the General Assembly of the United Nations by
leaders of the major powers was a lesson in the use and abuse of power.
President Putin's address on behalf of the Russian Federation contrasted sharply
with the address made by President
Obama, for the United States. While President Putin emphasized the fact that
the international world order and security system depended on the principles set
out in the UN Charter, President Obama made the absurd claim that the United
States had the right to ignore national sovereignty in order to "restore
security" for peoples of nations oppressed by what it labeled "tyrants" and
echoed the Bush doctrine that it would act alone or with its allies to
accomplish these objectives, come what may . . . (syriathetruth).

In his September 28, 2015 speech to the United Nations General Assembly,
Russian President Putin declared: "The ranks of radicals are being joined by the
members of the so-called 'moderate' Syrian opposition supported by the Western
countries. First they are armed and trained, and then they defect to the Islamic
State. Besides, the Islamic State itself did not just come from nowhere. It was
also initially forged as a tool against undesirable secular regimes . . ." (globalresearch.ca).

October 1, 2015 —
Putin looks to have viewed this as the ultimate geopolitical win-win. That
is, Russia gets to i) expand its influence in the Middle East in defiance of
Washington and its allies, a move that also helps to protect Russian energy
interests and preserves the Mediterranean port at Tartus, and ii) support its
allies in Tehran and Damascus thus preserving the counterbalance to the
US-Saudi-Qatar alliance.

Meanwhile, Iran gets to enjoy the support of
the Russian military juggernaut on the way to protecting the delicate regional
nexus that is the source of Tehran's Mid-East influence. It is absolutely
critical for Iran to keep Assad in power, as the loss of Syria to the West would
effectively cut the supply line between Iran and Hezbollah.

The same
dynamic is playing out in Iraq. That is, Iran is fighting ISIS via various
Shiite militias just as it's fighting the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen via the
Shia Houthis. It is thus extremely significant that Baghdad has agreed to share
intelligence with Syria and Russia, as that effectively means the Iran-backed
Shiite militias battling for control of Iraq will enjoy the support of the
Russian military.

What should be obvious here is that this is a
coordinated plan.

The Kremlin has effectively agreed to bring the might
of the Russian air force to bear on Assad's opponents in Syria and on Sunni
militants in Iraq in support of Iranian ground troops and because the US and its
allies have failed so miserably in terms of fielding anti-Assad rebels who don't
turn out to be extremists, Putin gets to pitch the whole thing as a "war on
terror." It would be difficult to design a more elegant power play . . . Full
story: zerohedge.com

US pulls Aircraft
Carrier out of Persian Gulf as Russian Ships enter

October 10, 2015 —
The United States has pulled the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a massive,
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier—out of the Persian Gulf as Russian warships
have entered the area.

For the first time since 2007, the US Navy has
now no aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, according to NBC News. The warship
was withdrawn from the Persian Gulf on Thursday, a day after Russia fired 26
long-range cruise missiles from its Caspian Flotilla against terrorists in
Syria, Pentagon officials said.

US military officials claimed that the
aircraft carrier, which houses about 5,000 sailors and 65 fighter jets, was
withdrawn because it needed to undergo maintenance. Tensions between the United
States and Russia escalated after Moscow began its military campaign on
September 30 against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists wreaking havoc in Syria . . .
killing hundreds of Israeli, Saudi and Turkish troops operating against
international law in Syria and Iraq . . . Full story: presstv.ir

IQ 93 Invaders
will wreck Germany

October 27, 2015 —
Non-white invaders tested at Chemnitz University in Germany have average IQs
of around 93 and this is going to cause "cognitive errors" with enormous
consequences for the rest of society, one of that country's leading psychology
professors has warned . . . the mass importation of low IQ non-white immigrants
is going to lead to the destruction of Germany . . . An average IQ of 93 puts
these "university qualified" non-white invaders a full ten points below the
average non-university qualified German native IQ. Full story: newobserveronline.com

Comment: The extent to which non-white invasion has overtaken
Germany is reflected in the fact that over half of that country's
lawmakers—previously all enthusiastic supporters of [Jewess] Angela Merkel—now
oppose her "open doors" policy and are on the brink of a revolt, a new article
in Der Spiegel magazine has admitted . . . (newobserveronline.com).

British, French, and US military interventions in the Middle East,
combined with the European Union's "asylum" program, are the two direct causes
of the Islamic State's (IS) newly-revealed plans to infiltrate terrorists
disguised as "asylum seekers" into Europe. The IS plans, disclosed after the
UK-based Quilliam Foundation—a government-funded organization which claims to be
made up of "moderate" Muslims—translated a recruiting document published online
by a prominent IS-linked propagandist . . . like all of the nations where America,
Britain, France and other western nations have intervened on behalf of Israel in
the Muslim world, the chaos left behind in Libya after the
western-engineered fall of the Gaddafi regime in 2011, has allowed the radical
Islamist group to gain support (newobserveronline.com).

Huge Crack in the
Earth opens East of Yellowstone Caldera

October 23, 2015 —
A giant crack in the earth appeared in the last two weeks on a ranch in the
Bighorn Mountains. Everyone here is calling it "the gash". Full story: youtube.com

Tensions soar
Internationally following US Deployment in South China Sea

October 28, 2015 —
Yesterday's US deployment of the destroyer USS Lassen and surveillance
aircraft into the 12-nautical mile zone surrounding the Chinese-controlled Subi
and Mischief reefs in the South China Sea has qualitatively escalated tensions
across Asia.

The aim of the US action is to humiliate the Chinese regime
and present it with only two options: either make a forceful response or bow
down to Washington's flagrant trampling on its long-standing sovereignty claims.
The pretext for the military provocation is the claim that the US is asserting
its "right of freedom of navigation" in international, not Chinese, waters. This
assertion has no more credibility than the claims that Iraq was attacked because
of "weapons of mass destruction" or that the US waged war on Libya to defend
"human rights . . ." A fraught process of diplomatic and military brinksmanship
is now in motion that could lead to an open clash between nuclear-armed powers
and draw countries across the entire Asian region and internationally into a
catastrophic war. Full story: wsws.org

A recently released classified document obtained by WikiLeaks
establishes that active US planning for regime-change predated the outbreak
of the Syrian civil war by at least five years. The secret report from the head
of the US Embassy in Damascus outlined "vulnerabilities" of the Syrian
government that Washington could exploit. At the top of the list were fomenting
"Sunni fears of Iranian influence" to cause sectarian conflict and taking
advantage of "the presence of transiting Islamist extremists."

Given
that the document was written in 2006, at the height of Iraq's sectarian carnage
caused by the US invasion and Washington's divide-and-rule tactics, these
proposals were made with full awareness that they would provoke a bloodbath.
Nearly a decade later, the bitter fruits of this policy include the deaths of
some 300,000 Syrians, with another 4 million driven from the country and 7
million more internally displaced.

While cynically exploiting the
suffering of the Syrian people to justify an escalation of US militarism,
Washington is not about to let Russia derail its drive to impose its hegemony
over the oil-rich Middle East and the entire planet. The path to war with Russia
is by no means accidental. From the outset, the US intervention to topple the
regime in Damascus was aimed at weakening the principal allies of the Syrian
government—Iran and Russia—in preparation for a direct assault on both
countries. More and more directly each day, the eruption of American militarism,
rooted in the historic crisis of American and world capitalism, confronts
humanity with the specter of a nuclear Third World War. wsws.org

Can you prove the
Original Isaiah 9:6 said Jesus will be called Mighty God?

Question: The
original of Isaiah was written 700 years BEFORE Jesus was born. From Isaiah
himself to the Dead Sea scrolls, the gap may be 500 years. From Isaiah himself
to the Masoretic text (manuscripts date from around AD1000), the gap may be
1,600 years. In the Septuagint (completed before 150BC), Isaiah 9:6 does NOT say
"Mighty God," it says "Messenger".

Isaiah 9:6 is NOT
quoted by the authors of the New Testament. The question is why?

Answer: Isaiah 9:6 is quoted in part in Matthew 28:18, Luke 2:11,
John 3:16, 10:30, 14:9, and I Corinthians 15:25.

Question: Can
you prove (the original) said he will be called mighty God? Yes or no?

Answer: Yes, of course. The progress at Isaiah 8:20 – 9:1-5 is
like that from early dawn to sunrise when the Light of revelation is risen upon
the Galileans in the progressive unfolding of the Old Testament shadows and
types, becoming not only clearer and brighter, but more extensive. All of this
blessing extends from a virgin-born child, a wonderful Son born to Israel as
proven by the might and His names that point to an origin above the earth. He is
a son of David, and will raise up the kingdom of David on the foundation of
justice and righteousness accomplished by the zeal of the God of Israel whom He
will be (verse 7).

Matthew 4:12-17 understands this, and the
"multiplication of the Israel nation and increased gladness in the Presence
of the Lord" belongs to the period of Messianic prosperity through the
revelation of the risen Christ, "Not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit
of Revelation" (Zechariah 4:6). And "the government shall be upon His
shoulder" in antithesis to "the yoke and staff" of the driver, for
Israel's elect, too, shall be wonderful children (Romans 9:7-33; Galatians
4:28-31). From chapter 7 Isaiah has represented the Messianic salvation from
proceeding from David's race in a genuine human way through conception,
pregnancy and birth, thus this child, fashioned wonderfully, and infinitely
higher than all other human children will establish the kingdom of David, not
only on the firmest foundation, but raise it up to the point of eternal power
and peace (Jeremiah 23:6).

From Isaiah 7:14 we find the Child will be
called "Emmanuel," which means "God with us" for He is "the
beginning of the creation of God [Himself]," in creation, the first-born of
the new creation of God-men (Revelation 3:14). God the Mighty Man of
(Psalm 24:1; Isaiah 9:6; 10:21; 11:1-2; 45:21; Matthew 1:23; John 14:9; Titus
2:13; Revelation 1:8; 15:3).

"The beginning of the creation of God"
is who the Lord Jesus says He is. But those words don't mean exactly as they
sound to us. Just taking them the way they sound has made some people (in fact
multitudes of people) get the idea that Jesus was the first creation of God,
making Him lower than Godhead. Then this first creation created all the rest of
the universe and whatsoever it contains. But that is not right. You know that
doesn't line up with the rest of the Bible. The words are, "He is the
BEGINNER or AUTHOR of the creation of God." Now we know for a surety that
Jesus is God, very God. He is the Creator.

John 1:3, "All things were
made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made".

He is the One of whom it is said, Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth." [Read Isaiah 44:24, "THUS SAITH
THE LORD, Your Redeemer, He who formed you from the womb, I am the Lord,
the Maker of all things; I alone stretched out the heavens and formed the
earth by Myself"]. Also it says in Exodus 20:11, "For in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day." See, there is no doubt that He is the Creator. He was the
Creator of a FINISHED PHYSICAL CREATION [and there is no change in specie].

Surely we can see what these words mean now. To have any other
interpretation would mean that God created God. How could God be created when
He, Himself, is the Creator?

But now He is standing in the midst of
the Church. As He stands there revealing who He is in this last age, He calls
Himself the "Author of the creation of God." This is ANOTHER CREATION.
This has to do with the church. This is a special designation of Himself. He is
the CREATOR of that church. The heavenly Bridegroom created His own Bride. As
the Spirit of God, He came down and created in the Virgin Mary the cells from
which His body was born. I want to repeat that. He created the very cells in the
womb of Mary for that body. It was not enough for the Holy Spirit to simply give
life to a human ovum supplied by Mary. That would have been sinful mankind
producing a body. That would not have produced the "Last Adam." Of Him it
was said "Lo a body hast Thou (Father) prepared for Me." God (not Mary)
provided that body. Mary was the human incubator and she carried that Holy Child
and brought Him to birth. It was a God-man. He was the Son of God. He was of the
NEW creation. Man and God met and joined; He was the first of this new race. He
is the head of this new race.

Colossians 1:18, "And He is the
head of the body, the church: Who is the beginning, the first-born from the
dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence".

II
Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation,
old things have passed away, behold all things are become new." There you
can see that though man was of the OLD ORDER or creation, now in UNION WITH
CHRIST, he has become the NEW CREATION of God.

Ephesians 2:10, "For
we are His workmanship CREATED IN UNION WITH CHRIST JESUS unto good works".

Ephesians 4:24, "And that you put on the NEW MAN which after God
is created in righteousness and true holiness".

This New Creation is
not the old creation made over, or it could not be called a new creation. This
is exactly what it says it is, "NEW CREATION." It is another creation,
distinct from the old one. No longer is He dealing by ways of the flesh. That
was how He dealt with Israel. He chose Abraham, and of Abraham's issue through
the godly Isaac line. But now out of every kindred, tribe and nation He has
purposed a new creation. He is the first of that creation. He was God created in
the form of man. Now by His Spirit He is creating many Sons unto Himself. God
the creator, creating Himself a part of His creation.

This is the true
revelation of God. This was His purpose. This purpose took form through
election. That is why He could look right down to the last age when all
would be over and see Himself still in the midst of the church, as author of
this New Creation of God. His Sovereign power brought it to pass. By His own
decree He elected the members of this New Creation. He predestinated them to the
adoption of children according to the good pleasure of His will. By His
omniscience and omnipotence He brought it to pass. How else could He know that
He would be standing in the midst of the Church receiving glory from His
brethren if He did not make sure? All things He knew, and all things He worked
out according to what He knew in order that His purpose and good pleasure be
brought to pass.

Ephesians 2:11, "In whom also we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all
things after the counsel of His own will." Hallelujah! Aren't you glad that
you belong to Him"! (William Branham, An Exposition
of the Seven Church Ages, p. 336:1-4). Our Lord Jesus Christ is the One
Person of the godhead born of a virgin to fulfill the part of KINSMAN Redeemer
for the first Adam and his fallen race. He is the Almighty God.

Abiding in the
Vine

Let us turn to Matthew
24:24, "False Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and
wonders so that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect".

Now read II Corinthians 11:12-15, "Those surpassers of the
apostles in their own esteem are false apostles, deceitful workers, pretending
to be "workmen" for the Lord, and really seeking their own gain, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself
masquerades as an angel of Light. So it is not extraordinary if his ministers
disguise themselves as servants of righteousness; whose end shall correspond to
their deeds."

And II Timothy 3:8-9, "That in the last days or
Messianic Age of redemption and completion . . . impersonators like Jannes and
Jambres who withstood Moses will resist the truth: men of corrupt minds,
reprobate concerning the revealed Word of the hour. But they shall proceed no
further: for their folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also was".

The deceiver hides behind the mask of an upright man which is how
our political leaders are voted into office to serve their electors when they
are in reality serving party politics, self, and the City of London working
towards one world government. Its objectives are to maintain and gradually
increase the authority of the United Nations, extend the jurisdiction of the
International Criminal Court and strengthen the Jews' world system of financial
control in private hands in order to dominate the political system of each
nation and the economy of the world as a whole, driving the nations under
unrepayable debt to private banksters; 'dumb down' institutes of education and
learning and create a new social order with a UN army able to act immediately
anywhere without the delay involved in each country making its own decision
whether to participate.

These false anointed ones and false prophets in the end-time
will not be teaching Judaeo-Catholic dogma, Baptist, Mormon or Buddhist
doctrine, but "as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses," these are
withstanding the Message of William Branham, "saying what the tapes say" without
taking it back to the Absolute of God's written Word to understand what the Holy
Spirit means. But rehearsing THUS SAITH THE LORD as "vain repetitions" of
the "letter" without the "Spirit" they have the cow eating grass
on top of a tree.

Satan is not transforming himself into a shabby drunk
with soup stains on his tie, a cigarette in his mouth and horizontal creases in
his trousers. And he doesn't have hooves and horns; in appearance he is a
mild-mannered, quietly-spoken and respectable gentleman of the kind you would be
proud to call your friend. As Lucifer he was the cherub anointed to guard God's
holy mountain and guide His people into His Presence. He constituted the perfect
measure of wisdom and beauty and was blameless in his walk until iniquity was
found in him.

Were Satan to present himself to you or your Church you
would not meet an unkempt ruffian but a delightful, refined and loveable
gentleman. He would make you feel appreciated; you would trust him and feel
comfortable in His presence. You could not fault him in any way but by the fine
line of revelation in God's Word, and then only if you are elect. He would be a
shoo-in for a denominational pulpit.

There are many such men ministering
in the circle of this Message, so Brethren, your duty to God and your
responsibility to yourself is to prove all things in your own Bible and study to
show yourself approved of God by rightly dividing the Word of Truth to make your
calling and election sure.

Genesis 2:1, "The heavens and the earth
were finished, and all the host of them" speaks principally of the natural
stars of heaven and the inhabitants of earth (Isaiah 34:1-2). Nehemiah 9:6
speaks spiritually: "You are Lord alone; You have made heaven, the heaven of
heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the
seas, and all that is therein, and You preserve them all; and the host of heaven
worship You."

Nehemiah states correctly that our 'angels' are the
host of heaven (Genesis 1:27; Revelation 19:14).

The Prophet said,
"It was in Him to be man. That's the reason that Christ was the expressed image.
See? Now, He was to be Father; He was to be Son; He was to be Saviour; He was to
be Healer. There was nothing. There wasn't even a Angel or nothing. Then He
created Angels. Then He become God; He was worshipped. Then these are the
manifestations of His thinking."

"There is nothing wrong.
Everything is going to turn out all right. Don't be scared. God's big timepiece
is ticking right along. It'll be there. He'll have a Church without spot or
wrinkle. It was in His thinking. The thing of it is, am I in there? Are
you in there? And here He was the eternal Thought of God expressed into
Sonship. Oh, my. There was God Emmanuel then. Notice. Then He was the Word"
(Sir, We would See Jesus, p. 12:83-84).

A Word is thought when it is
expressed, and as His Attributes the elect were in God's thinking eternally,
which is how we have eternal Life. The angels are the theophanies of our
glorified appearance (Revelation 5:9-12; The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p.
500:Q23a – Q23b; COD, p. 846:Q195). In His great thinking God sees us as already
redeemed, glorifying Him throughout eternity as Jesus prayed, "Now, O Father,
glorify Me with Your Own Self with the glory which I had with You before
the world was" (John 17:5).

God
did not choose His elect by arbitrary decision—I choose, you, you and you; the
rest of you are dismissed—which would be an injustice to the non-elect, but
according to His foreknowledge of the decisions you yourself would make by the
exercise of your sovereign free will to conform your life to the revelation of
"the present Truth" for your day whereby you become the living
Word "known and read of all men" (II Corinthians 3:2; I Peter 1:2).

Now the natural types the Spiritual. Jesus said, "Henceforth I
no longer call you servants; for the servant does not know what his lord does:
but I have called you friends; for all things which I have heard from My Father
I made known unto you. You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and
ordained, [planted or appointed] you, that you may go and bear fruit, and that
your fruit may remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in My Name
[with the Token on display representing all the Word that I am], He may give it
you. [Because] if you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what
you will, and it shall be done unto you [as you are My Word manifest]. Herein is
My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My disciples.
These things I command you, in order that you may love one another" (John
15:15-16, 7-8, 17).

The choosing of which Jesus speaks is not the
Spiritual election of God to eternal life according to His foreknowledge before
creation manifest at the beginning of time because eleven of His disciples were
elect from eternity while the twelfth, whom Jesus called "My own familiar
friend in whom I trusted," was foreknown as "the son of perdition"
(John 6:70; 13:18; 17:12; Psalm 41:9). As God chose Abraham as His
friend (Isaiah 41:8), Jesus was choosing His friends from among His disciples
because of their mutual indwelling: "I am the vine, you are the
branches: He who abides in Me, and I in him, brings forth much fruit: for
without Me you can do nothing. If a man abides not in Me, he is cast forth as a
branch [like Judas], and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into
the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in
you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you. Herein is My
Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My disciples"
(John 15:5-8). Therefore in light of the moral destiny of their character,
Jesus was distinguishing them above His many disciples or pupils to be His
personal friends; confidants with whom he entrusts His understanding that, as
apostles, they might pass His Life to the increase of His Body.

The
office to which they have been ordained will be to bear witness after His
crucifixion and resurrection but first they were to "tarry in the city of
Jerusalem until they are endued with power from on High" (Luke 24:48-49).
After they have received the promise of Abraham, they and us too are Abraham's
heirs through the baptism with the Holy Ghost (Galatians 3:26-29) so we should
go forth in the fellowship and impulse of His love, bringing forth much fruit
"whose seed is in itself," in Christ's love and the Kingdom of
God.

In Revelation 3:7 Jesus set Himself forth as He that is holy, true,
(or the only reality) the one with the key of David, the one who opened and
shut. And that is exactly true. Those phrases describe Him perfectly. But the
Jews in His day refused Him and all He was. They rejected their Saviour and all
He meant to them. And today's nominal Christian has done the same. They have
done what the Jews did exactly. The Jews crucified Him and then turned on the
true believer. The nominal Christian has crucified Him afresh and turned on the
true church to destroy it. But God is true, and He who is above all will yet
return, and when He does He will show who is the only Potentate (I Timothy
6:15). And as He proves Himself to the world, and all the world bows at His
feet, at that time all the world will bow at the feet of the saints, proving
that they were right in their stand with Him. Blessed be God forever (Isaiah
60:14; Revelation 3:9)!

Now we will consider the age of the "open
door".

Revelation 3:8, "I know your works; behold I have set
before you an open door, and no man can shut it; for you have a little strength,
and have kept My Word, and have not denied My Name."

The first
phrase of this verse, "I know your works," is analyzed in the rest of the
verse, for their works had to do with the "open door," "little strength,"
the "Word" and the "Name".

In order to understand the
wealth of meaning involved in "behold I set before you an open door, and no
man can shut it," we must now recall what has been said about each age
running over into another age. There is an overlapping, a melting or fading
into, rather than an abrupt end and a clear cut start. The Philadelphia Church
Age particularly flows into the next age. And not only does this age overflow
into the last age, but the last age was in many respects simply a carrying on of
the sixth age. The seventh or Laodicean Church Age (a very short age) gathered
up into itself for one quick work, all the evil of every age and yet all the
reality of Pentecost. Once the Philadelphian Age had about run its course, the
Laodicean Age quickly came in, bringing both the tares and the wheat to harvest,
"First bind the tares to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn"
(Matthew 13:30).

The Holy Spirit is gathering and binding the
tares in the charismatic and ecumenical movements and the World Council of
Churches which are reconciling Rome's apostate (once) Protestant daughters back
into the bosom of the great harlot ready for the burning (Revelation 2:20-23;
17:1-5, 16; 16:13-16; 18:7-10, 17-18; 19:19-21; Ezekiel 16:37).

Remember, please, that the Sardisean Age started the Reformation
that continued until the grain that was planted at Pentecost went through the
full cycle of planting, watering, nourishing, etc., until it comes right back to
original seed under the "former [or teaching] rain" of the seven thunders
in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals. These
divinely revealed 'mystery truths' will literally turn the hearts of the
children to the Pentecostal fathers (Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Revelation
10:7). While this is going on, the tares that were sown will have to go through
their cycle and be harvested also. That is exactly what we see happening. If you
can just think of the seasons, you can get a very good picture of this. The
plant that you see growing in full strength in summer suddenly appears to be
going to seed. You can't tell exactly when summer became autumn—it just faded
into it. That is how the ages are, and especially these last two.

It is
to this age that Jesus said in verse 11, "I come QUICKLY." And He did
(Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:14-16; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 4, 5,
10:1-7)! That made the last age a very short one. Laodicea was the age of the
quick work (Matthew 24:22-28). It was cut short by the end of Christ's
mediation in the office Son of God for ignorance when the last saint
predestinated to Laodicea was baptized into the Body. Then redemption was over and
He returned as Judge in the prophetic office Son of man (John 5:27).

Now we will specifically dwell on the OPEN DOOR that no man can shut.
First of all it signifyies the tremendous missionary effort of that age.
Paul called a new missionary endeavor for the Lord an open door. II Corinthians
2:12, "When I came to Troas to preach Christ's Gospel, and a door was opened
unto me of the Lord." By the comparison of Scriptures we can see that this
open door signified the greatest spreading of the Gospel that the world has ever
seen.

I want you to see something here. God works in threes, doesn't
He? It was in the third or Pergamean Age that the church was married to the
state at the First Nicaea Council in AD325 where the Judaeo-Roman Universal
church organized. "The deeds of the Nicolaitanes" had become "the
doctrine of the Nicolaitanes." That age was the OPEN DOOR for the false
vine. Once it was backed up by the power of the state it became actually a
world system even though it bore the name, Christian. Thus it spread like
wildfire. But now, three ages later, after a long and hard struggle of faith,
here comes the OPEN DOOR to the truth. The Word of the Lord now has its day. Of
course the fifth age had set the stage for this mighty move, as that age gave us
exploration, colonization, the printing of books, etc. But Jesus never told
us to go into all the world and establish Bible colleges; nor did He tell us to
pass out literature. Those things are fine, but what Jesus told us to do was to
PREACH THE GOSPEL—stick with the WORD—and then the signs would follow. The power
of God is still available to those who will believe and receive (Matthew 10:1-8;
Mark 16:15-20; Hebrews 2:1-4). God never told a man to labor thirty years and
harvest nothing. He gave us the open door of Word and power and that is what we
are supposed to use. That is what gave Paul his great and effective ministry. I
Corinthians 2:4, "My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of
man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." We are only
fishing for God's elect, if after the first and second admonition a man cannot
receive "the present Truth" you know the election is off (John
10:1-5; Titus 3:9-11).

I don't want to hurt your feelings, girls, but
you have no business handling God's Word in public (I Corinthians 14:34-35;
Ephesians 5:22; I Timothy 2:11-15). And a man has no business preaching unless
he is filled with the Holy Ghost and preaching the true Gospel in the
demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost. If you are not seeing the results
that Jesus said you would see, it's because you are not preaching the true
Gospel.

It was after the Laodicean Church Age that Christ came quickly
"to finish the work and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work
will the Lord make upon the earth" (Romans 9:28; Matthew 24:23-28). After
Laodicea ended, John, who represent's Christ's end-time Bride throughout the
Book of Revelation "saw a door still open in heaven; and the first
Voice which he heard as clear as a trumpet, said: come up hither and I will show
you things that must be after all seven Church Ages are fulfilled [as they were
before Christ opened the Seals in 1963]. And immediately Christ's end time Bride
was caught up in the rapture" (Revelation 1:10; 4:1-2). The revelation of
the Seven Seals transports us across the breach between the Church Ages and the
Seals into Christ and the Capstone of His mystic Body.

JESUS IS THE DOOR
of the sheep and Christ's end-time Bride is caught up into the OPEN DOOR which
is the revelation of Him. That Revelation is opening up to bring us Strength, to
illuminate the Word and glorify His Name. It was in the midst of the two last
ages that the Revelation of the Supreme Deity of Jesus Christ blossomed out
before us. Yes, we knew He was God. How else could He be our Saviour? But to
know that He was GOD ALONE, that He was the Alpha and the Omega, that this
"Jesus was both Lord and Christ"—making Him LORD JESUS CHRIST, the
Father, the Son and Holy Ghost—three major offices of ONE PERSON—a revelation
that had been lost since the first Church Ages, but now we are seeing it again.
The revelation of WHO HE WAS, IS, AND FOREVER WILL BE had come back. Indeed
Godhead is not a three-person God with one personality, for it takes personality
to make a person. If there is ONE personality, there is but one person. But they
who believe in three persons have a three god Godhead and are guilty of breaking
the first commandment.

Now that the revelation of Godhead has been
restored the true church can build in strength again. After all this time she
finally knows who her Lord is, and once again we are BAPTIZING IN THE NAME OF
THE LORD JESUS just as they did at Pentecost.

"If you abide in Me and
My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto
you" for with the mind of Christ you and the Word are one so you asking for
what you are. Thus will it be in the manifestation of the Sons of God to elevate
faith for translation grace. nl984.htm

Pass it on
. . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational
minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers
and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation,
and is available to teach in your church.